‘It’s all fallen apart’: Newsom scrambles to save California — and his career

[laylalex 7,300]

Just now, Boiler said:

So how many days a year can you wear it for its intended use.

What, mucking about in the countryside looking like I am outdoorsy but it's more like I like going for a decent walk as long as it ends in a pub with a nice fire and a decent pint or three and someone will come pick me up so I don't need to walk back? Depends on when I can travel to the UK again.  

 

Other uses: watching other people muck out stables; expressing opinions on world events while waiting for the hunt to come back so you can have lunch; over a nice dress when you're at someone else's country house at nighttime and you've gone outside with a friend so they can have a cigarette and complain to you about other people inside. At least, those have been my uses. Not sure what the American uses are to be honest.

[Boiler 45,945]

Well you bought it...

[laylalex 7,300]

25 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Well you bought it...

I did! I have worn it to Bristol Farms and on a couple of walks around town so far. No pubs.  None open that is.

[Boiler 45,945]

Bristol Farms is not what it may suggest.

[laylalex 7,300]

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Bristol Farms is not what it may suggest.

I tried! You have to work with what you've got.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

So I have come to realize that maybe the state is trying to reopen again because they are broke and need to stop paying so many unemployment benefits. I know I have followed this quite a bit but the CA UI system has been rife with fraud. 


https://thehill.com/homenews/news/535796-california-officials-confirm-over-11-billion-in-unemployment-fraud-during?fbclid=IwAR2Zx-vJFbtVtW7EMuucj3YvkNDhiS7cZ5ponlZL1bgkoZzE4lmi8dFhZ4g

[Boiler 45,945]

Same deal in Colorado, what happened to the science?

[laylalex 7,300]

4 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

So I have come to realize that maybe the state is trying to reopen again because they are broke and need to stop paying so many unemployment benefits. I know I have followed this quite a bit but the CA UI system has been rife with fraud. 

 

But yes, the EDD is a mess. Many people have been defrauded by criminal gangs, often running out of jails/prisons. A system that wasn't super to begin with got overwhelmed when people lost their jobs en masse. 

 

However, we are moving out of the stay at home because we met the metrics the state and county set months ago. 

[TBoneTX 45,918]

5 hours ago, laylalex said:

outdoor dining will open again as well as hairdressers, nail salons, etc. with modifications. We can have small (3 household) gatherings again outside. We earned this

No; it was taken by authoritarian fiat by elites who were our Betters.  These were and are the rights of all free Americans.  By now, too many of us are too used to groveling in front of tyrants with, "Please, my liege and master... may I have a crust for my supper?"

[laylalex 7,300]

29 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

No; it was taken by authoritarian fiat by elites who were our Betters.  These were and are the rights of all free Americans.  By now, too many of us are too used to groveling in front of tyrants with, "Please, my liege and master... may I have a crust for my supper?"

Insulting. Sorry. Not funny at all. We have been suffering and we worked hard as a state to get here. My sister and her boyfriend have it right now. My husband's boss has it right now. Why? Because people were earlier ignoring what was common sense. The more contagious form of the virus is here, and my sister and her boyfriend genuinely have no idea how they got it. They're going to be fine, thanks, we hope.

[TBoneTX 45,918]

All the best, sincerely, to your family and the boss, but viruses are gonna virus regardless of what anyone does, and nothing ordered by authoritarians takes precedence over Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Edited January 26, 2021 by TBoneTX

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

I agree with both of you and whats funny is the zero sum approach I see, to me, hearkens to other value issues like abortion where people don't really need to give up anything, and abandoning the part of the approach that caters to polarization/wedges easily results in a near infinite amount of ideas and an outcome far better than any zero sum scenario given. The barrier to it is artificial. 

Edited January 26, 2021 by Burnt Reynolds

[Dashinka 24,735]

8 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I think this is happening in a few states. Kind of the opposite effect of Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is not as much that people are doing in January in many places.

Michigan new cases actually peaked at Thanksgiving and have been going down since.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

15 hours ago, Boiler said:

Same deal in Colorado, what happened to the science?

 

  I'm about to watch the governors conference right now. Where specifically did Colorado deviate from following science or guidelines that have been in place?

[Boiler 45,945]

Mayor of Denver comes immediately to mind.